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The Creators' Game: A Conduit for Youth Development, Community Engagement, and American Indian Cultural Connections
Social work in public health, Vol.36(7-8), pp.832-846
11/17/2021
PMID: 34433386
Web of Science ID: WOS:000689478500001
Abstract
The Nebraska Panhandle Creators' Game event (CG) was a grassroots-driven community engagement project for the Nebraska Panhandle region, a largely rural region with a vibrant American Indian (AI) population. The CG event explored the role social workers can play in leveraging a youth sport (lacrosse) as a convening platform for public health messaging and to embrace the fundamental fact that the AI people live with an intimate connection to their community, the land, and their people. This connection is pivotal for self-directed change in communities that actively comingle with American Indian people. A feasibility study was done to explore respondents' perceptions of the impact of the event on youth development, community engagement, and cultural connections. The pilot data collected for this project supports the literature on participatory research as a key to engaging AI communities. Data trends are provided, and the implications of these findings are discussed.
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- Title
- The Creators' Game
- Publication Details
- Social work in public health, Vol.36(7-8), pp.832-846
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Copyright
- © 2021 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Identifiers
- WOS:000689478500001; 99380567281206600
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; Usha Kundu, MD College of Health
- Language
- English